Practicing urban designer, city planner, professor and author. Recipient of the John Chase Visionary Award from the American Planning Association Los Angeles Section for excellence in urban design and city planning (2024). Recipient of the Allied Professional Appreciation Award from the Indian Society of Landscape Architects for significant contributions to landscape architecture (2023.) Recipient of the Academic Leadership & Impact Award for Urbanism from the USC Pacific Asia Museum (2023).Work ranges from design, research and urban activism projects for communities and cities in the United States, Canada, China, Japan, Panama, India, Egypt and Guatemala. Adjunct Professor of Urbanism in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California (USC). Co-Director of the India-Netherlands-based knowledge-platform, My Liveable City. Editor/Author of numerous books including "Urbanism Beyond 2020," “Streets For All: 50 Ideas for Shaping Resilient Cities”, "Affordable Housing, Inclusive Cities," "The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms," and the "Routledge Companion to Global Heritage Conservation."